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Shenzhen-based HKC is moving forward with its AMOLED project, and the company said that a few days ago, on November 13, it has received its first OLED panel orders. The company said that its OLED panels has officially passed customer testing and verification. 

This first order is for HKC's smartphone AMOLED panels that the company showed in July 2025. These OLEDs are produced on an advanced Oxide-TFT (IGZO) backplane, likely on Royole's old production line, see more below. HKC says that the performance of its IGZO smartphone AMOLED displays matches the industry's leading products.

QD-OLED is an OLED display architecture, that is based on single-color OLED emitters and color conversion using quantum-dots. This relatively complex architecture was invented years ago as a way to solve the challenges of large-area OLED RGB device deposition.  

In recent years, we have seen successful full-scale commercialization of QD-OLED panels (by Samsung Display), but now in 2025, is there a place for this interestingly but complex device architecture? In this article we discuss the following topics:

• QD-OLED technology and architecture, its advantages and disadvantages
• Samsung's QD-OLED technology, and how it evolved in recent years
• QD-OLED projects at other companies
• Samsung's QD-OLED production capabilities, panels and products
• The future of QD-OLEDs technology

China-based LCD maker HKC aims to become an AMOLED producer, and we now have more details on its strategic plans. In 2023, HKC started a collaboration with JDI to build an eLEAP AMOLED production line in China. These plans were canceled towards the end of 2023, but the company continued to develop its AMOLED technologies, and in early 2025 it acquired Royole's AMOLED production line equipment.

Earlier this month HKC produced its first AMOLED display sample - a smartphone type panel, produced on an advanced Oxide-TFT (IGZO) backplane. 

Samsung Display is introducing a new IT AMOLED display type, branded as UT One OLED. UT One displays feature an ultra-thin structure and a variable refresh rate (VRR) of down to 1Hz. Samsung says that UT One OLEDs offer a reduced power consumption by 30% compared to 'conventional panels'.

UT One OLEDs are produced on a glass substrate, but offer a TFE encapsulation, to reduce thickness (by 30%) and weight (also 30%). Samsung says that compared to a standard rigid OLED protected by two glass panels, this can reduce weight by about 50 gram in a laptop display.

TCL CSOT is demonstrating its latest display technologies at SID Displayweek 2025. The company's main focus seems to be on inkjet printed OLED displays, and the company showed several new such displays, as it gears up towards mass production.

First up is a smartphone IJP OLED panel, which TCL says is the world's first. The 6.5-inch display offers a resolution of 824x1833 (326 PPI), with a real RGB structure. This is an impressive display, achieving very high density for an inkjet printing process.

Omdia has updated its Apple iPad and Macbook display roadmaps, with new forecasts and information about Apple's OLED adoption plans in its IT product lines. 

According to Omdia, Apple's iPad Mini will get a 8.4-inch LTPS OLED display in 2026. In 2027, Apple will also introduce OLED displays in its iPad Aid models (11-inch and 13-inch). In 2028 Apple will revamp the OLED displays in its iPad Pro models, offering a tandem architecture, polarizer-free OLED design and LTPO backplanes.

During Displayweek 2024, Visionox demonstrated many OLED display technologies and panels, and also an interesting microLED prototypes (produced by its subsidiarity Vistar).

Visionox is in the final stages of development of its ViP maskless display production process, and the company showcased some nice ViP smartphone panel prototypes (the technology can be used for any panel size). ViP offers a high improvement in aperture ratio (69% up from 29%) which results in low power consumption and brightness (up to 4X according to Visionox), improved lifetime (up to 6X), improved PPI and more.

BOE had a large demonstration at Displayweek 2024, showing several display technologies and many new panels and prototypes.

First up we have a slidable OLED display, one of the largest we've seen, at 31.6". The display offers a resolution of 5944x1672, a sliding distance of just over 260 mm (BOE says its the world's longest) and a sliding radius of 5 mm.